The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-19
NUMBER 30.

most bare. In some fields not a ves-
tige of gram remains, and 1t has all to
be resown."
Resistance is being made IN Muh.
lenberg county, Kentucky, to the col.
lection of taxes from the bonded debt
of the county. Three hundred men
are engaged in Greenville, the county
seat, and they declare that they mea
war to the bitter end, if the effort to
collect the tax is persisted in. The
railroad debt Of the county IS s., 205.-
56S, while the valuation of the prop
erty OF the county is only 81, 100, 600. -
Tie railway office at Coleman.
Texas, was robbed of $4,000 by masked
burglars early on the morning of the
12th.
--uenIy Berwanger, aged % years.
on the 1lth, shot and killed Carr e
Peltz, about the same age, employed as
cook in his fathers family in Baltl-
more. Young Berwanger had been in
a lunatIc asylum. Miss Elizabeth
Kolar, aged 81 years, committed sui
eide by swallowing Paris Green, at
Shelby, New York, on the morning of
the 18th. She was crazed by religious
excitement. Tie Grand Jury at Nor.
ris, Illinois. on the 18th, Indicted
Henry Schwartz and Newton Watt for
the murder of Kellogg Nichols, the
Book Island express messenger, about
a year ago.
Two trains on the Northern Pa
| .sE. D,gT-.,I ..I1,J,7 .,na~ w InntIa,l
Dakota, on the 18th. Fireman Snyder
was killed, and three other train hands
were dangerously injured, n losing a
leg.
The Commercial Cotton Compress
and a quantity of cotton, in New Or
leans were destroyed by fire on tn ,
morning of the 18th. Loss, $l50,00o;
insured. Peters saw mill and Two
drill houses at Bay City, Michigan,
were burned on tue morning of tie
18th. Loss, $40, 900; covered by insur.
ance. The Hollis House, Tarr's bakery
and the Killey block, in HOlliston,
Massachusetts, were burned on the
18th. Loss, S47,350; insurance, S37,
300.
During a quarrel in the house Il
James Barrett. near Dunmore, Penn
s~ylvania, on The 18th, George ami
Joseph MurrelI were killed, and a mau
named Mot2 was mortally wounded.
Barrett was arrested. He confessed
the shooting, but says it was in self
defence. In Yonkers, New York, on
the evening Of the 18th, Cornelius
Dewitt, aged 10 years, and Albert G..
| NI,1Ff no,n 1R f1t,Y1,F t,nNn fha trnaf
and Dewitt knocked down his-antagO-
mist. When the latter was picked up,
1t was found he was dead.
While NJ. L. Landshaw, his VIE
and four sons were camped near LITTLE
Rock, Arkansas, on the morning Of
the 18Th, one OF the sons, becoming
insane, attacked his father and moth'r
with a stick, INJECTING wounds which
are likely to prove fatal.
The CCroner's inquest in the Case
offs Mary Anderson, at Mount Holly.
New Jsrsey, wa held on the 18th, AVID
resulted III a verdict that death Wa
caused by a wound from a pistol la 4.
fired by her cousin, Barclay Peak.
The County Clerk at Chicago IN
the 18th, returned the alleged marriage
certificate Of Nina Van ZAndt and Il e
Anarchist Spies to Justice EngelhaId',
who claimed to have performed tie
ceremony. THE clerk reminds tie
Justice that, as Spies was in the county,
Jail at the time of the alleged marriage,
he could not have been at the village OF
Jefferson, where the Justice certihts
that the marriage occurred.
John T.. Gledhill, Chicago mana
ger of the Ausonia Clock Company,
Of New York, is reported to have
fled to Canada, alter embeZzliug
about $50, 600. lie is 81 years of agr
and married. Isaac Vincent, Treas
urer OF Alabama, who disappeared in
1885 with over 5000, 900 of the public
funds, was on the 18th lodged in jail
at Montgomery. He was captured
near Ell Paso, Texas.
A telegram from Morehead, Ken
lucky, tells the following story: 81.
T. Witcher, formerly a conductor on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. was
talking to his friend, John Trumbo, and
playfully remarked: Il could cut your
throat, Trumbo, were you and | to gel
intoa fight, before you could draw pis-
toll to save your lIfe.' We'll, said Trum-
DO, Il will Just show you that you
couldn't After saying this lie pulled
his pistol, pointing it at Whether, when
the deadly weapon went of, AMI
Witchec feljto the floor. 1t is st Il
these men entertained not the least
malice toward the other, and na'e had
any difficulty, 1t was an accident, and
not done Intentionally" Carrie
Thompson. crazed with grief for tn"
recent death of her husband, attemi t.
ed to cut the throat OF her ten year
old daughter, in the railroad yard ~
| J~effersonvllle, Indiana, on the evening
of the 14th. a Waterman iuterfered,
and the woman attacked him with the
knife, but she was overpOwered and
placed in jail. L zHe McGowan, age
10 years, committed suicide, in a fit of
insanity, at C~hicopee, Massachusetts,
on the l4th. She "took sufficient Pans
green to kill twenty-five persons"
No trains arrived at Helena, Mon
tana, oven the Northern Pacific Rail
road, from the 10th until the l4tl.
owing to the nov blockade. The hrst
arrival was a train from Portland,
| Oregon. Delayed trains from st. Paul
were expected on the 18th.
THE ELS.